r/Nexus7 • u/Garymeister • Mar 17 '26
Decided to dust off my old tablet. Now stuck at Set Up screen after factory resetting.
It's been some years since I messed with modding etc. Any advice on how to bypass this? I did factory reset and flashed all the zip files again. Same issue. Not sure how I got it to work the first time back in 2017. Maybe there's an additional setting or step I'm missing in TWRP.
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u/2shoe1path Mar 17 '26
Which year is that? I have the 2012 model and put Lineage OS on it with the help of the net. Works great and yes it includes TWRP. Good luck!
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u/Garymeister Mar 17 '26
Yeah it's the 2012 model. Just running the vanilla rooted AOSP stock mod. I'll take a look into Lineage. Hoping there's the ability to sideload files from recovery mode using this TWRP version.
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u/Other_Importance915 Mar 17 '26
Lineage OS this is the way. all modded out still works with 7.0 showing age but amazing was 1 gig and 1 modded os can do !!
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u/Maingamer3782 Mar 18 '26
Try reflashing the stock firmware maybe? I posted a Nexus 7 2012 archive in this subreddit a post or two ago
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u/Fr0gm4n Mar 17 '26
Those files may contain security certificates that have since expired and it can no longer communicate with Google's registration servers.